Makrut Lime Review - Weird Fruit Explorer : Episode 12
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2013
- So It turns out the "kaffir" is an offensive term. I didn't know this at the time of filming.
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"I did some research and Uhhh its not a lemon" *stock image of a lemon appears on screen*
Lol I literally laughed so hard out loud. Idk why.
I have a tree in my backyard and use both leaves and fruits. Add the 3- 5 leaves to your meat or shrimp curry and it changes the flavor and aroma instantly. I squeeze the fruit in my fish sauce or soy sauce for dipping and it makes grilled fish and some meat more delicious and fragrant. I usually add a 1/4 wedge to a tall glass or half a fruit in a pitcher of ice tea. DO NOT squeeze, just drop it in, and it makes my tea very aromatic.
Do the leaves taste any different from those of other citrus>
Yes, the leaves tastes different than other citrus..
I highly highly recommend them in Thai Tom Kha soup, it's delicious
the proper method is peel the skin then cut and squeeze the juice of one kaffir lime mix with one cup of water add sugar and pinch sea salt and enjoy. this was our favourite young days drink in asia
Make it into syrup too, it's good
I love your video. Thanks for putting it together. I have these and have grown them for a long time. I absolutely LOVE this plant. It (and the fruit) have 101 uses. The fruit is used in Thailand to make shampoo and is very much sought after by Thai women. I give my fruit to a Thai lady who owns a Thai restaurant. I also give her my branches when I prune my tree in the fall. These leaves are very expensive and they use a ton of them in the restaurant. In exchange I get free Thai food every so often.
I remember reading that the juice from this lime makes a killer gin and tonic. Never have tried it though. The leaves smell like candy when bruised or crushed. Some uses...
Deserts, teas, soups, curries, candy, shampoo, flea/lice treatment, perfume, potpourri,...
One of my favorite limes. Great in limeade. The soap flavor is more of a pine taste than a soap. If you love lime flavor and want less acidity this is a great choice. It’s very green skittle tasting to me
Green skittle?
I'm watching all the "bergamot/not bergamot" videos
NOT BERGAMOT
The leaf of kaffir lime is also very unique. It looks like two ordinary leaves joined end to end, like the tip of one joins to the stem of the other.
And yeah, I know this tree more for its leaf than for its fruit as it's used in cooking to add flavour.
In Malay, we call it 'limau purut'. Traditional midwife uses it for massaging the stomach of a woman who's just given birth to her baby. We don't eat the fruit. We use the leaves in Tom Yam and some cooking, just like the bay leaf in western cooking.
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Why not eat the fruit? Is it posits l poisonous,
@@MaxOakland no poison... Just too sour... For bath, shampoo, etc. The rind is grated for soup, etc.
Going to check out this plant tomorrow and try the leaves/fruit.... Thanks for the information!
Thank you I've been looking for this information
No substitute if you want to make Thai food that taste like your favorite restaurants. I tried many other citrus leaves before discovering etsy sellers of them. A small amount will stay fresh enough to cook with for about 3weeks in the fridge.
Their is an aromatic lemon found in West Bengal, India. And it is just awesome both the leaf and the fruit are edible. Locals call it ghondhoraj lebu which means aromatic lemon. The sad part is that it doesn't grow elsewhere.
Love kaffir lime leave in my Thai cooking, tis’ yummy indeed.
P.S. LEMON!
I have a kafir tree in my backyard and this year it got more fruits. I kind of got used to the juice. I like it with soda water or cooking. I use the leave too for cooking.
Human do not eat this kind of lime. We use the leaves for cooking. The fruit was used to wash cloth or cooking (just the skin).
I have a kaffir lime here in southern USA. It's leaves make amazing tom yum.
Florida?
The Legend yes plant city
I know this is super old but I just saw it. @4:30 When you spit the seed out onto the floor, indoors, I laughed so loud. The swagger. Haha
I heard that mostly the zest is used from the KL
The fruit is very, very sour with an acidic flavour. I sometimes add a bit to my water to flavour it.
It would be good that way, if you can get past the slight soapy taste
Thanks, glad you are enjoying the videos. A Kaffir lime tart sounds very interesting, does it have a soapy taste at all?
Would key limes be weird enough to do? I live in Australia where key limes are not normally available. I'm curious about how they compare to the more common Tahitian/ Persian lime.
I always wondered about this. Definitely see a lot of use of the leaves.
I am Laotian from South East Asia. To many of us, the fruit is pretty much useless, although some people like my mother used it to rub on her hair while she’s shampooing. But it is their leaves that are useful for many Asian cooking. Sorry that you had to encounter with that unpleasant woman.
You can absolutely use the juice just like any other lime
I've done side by side comparisons ..it's a good lime for juice
These fruit are not unusual they are aromatic used for a multitude of purposes. The leaves and zest and juice are common in the curry and deserts. There are uses for antiseptic, aromatherapy, insect repellent and pot pourri.
In indonesia we call it jeruk purut and use the leaves in many cooking
We have those in the Caribbean. On the Island where I'm from we call it Bugamut/ belgamut or some other variation depending on the part you're from. The rind is used to flavour grounded cocoa beans for making hot chocolate and it can be squeezed to make juice (its juice, sugar and water)
+B9mac Now that is interesting. I managed to find a store that sells these here in NYC, I'll try adding some to hot chocolate some time :)
Well I'm not sure if you'll get the same effect. The rind is usually ground with the dried cocoa beans the rolled into balls. Those balls are used to make the hot chocolate. Its really rich and aromatic!
Bergamot in English, its flowers make up the main flavour of earl grey tea. Interesting that it is used in hot chocolate.
Not bergamot. They look the same, but bergamot is citrus bergamia while kaffir lime is citrus hystrix. Bergamot is actually more of an orange than a lime, in spite of its apperance.
You chose such a perfect one.
That things looks like a Devils Fruit with those swirls on it.
Another one I will pass on with a taste test. Next...
Very sour. Next...
Hearing the phrase "I did my research" in 2021 got a physical reaction out of me, lol. I love the image of an older Chinese lady snapping "lemon!" at you haha
Dishwasher lime
I guess you could make lemonade on steroid, hehe. It looks a bit like the CA avocado. I love nature discoveries!
I have heard it called porcupine orange.
I made marmalade with them and it was quite good.
Is good for me
In my top 10. Fruit, zest, and leaves.
And the juice is used as a condiment and ingredient in food in Sulawesi 🤷🏻♂️
I like the cat
Natures soap.
Nah thats the soapberry lol check out that review.
My youtube autoplay just put this on whilst making thai red curry with kaffir lime leaves. Coincidence...
Try lemonade with this...
Lol. Care brars
it looks like an akuma no mi, from onepiece.
Interesting. My makrut lime (native word, btw; 'kaffir' is a derogatory term) never has any seeds. But I'm totally with you on the detergent flavor. I can only use them very cautiously and sparingly. The leaves are wonderful and easy to use.
Really? Why is it derogatory? I may have too change my title :). I agree, it is quite good in moderation, but would certainly rather the leaves.
It's a term from South Africa, equivalent to the n-word in English. Here's a quote from wikipedia: "The Oxford Companion to Food (ISBN 0-19-211579-0) recommends that the name kaffir lime be avoided in favor of makrut lime because Kaffir is an offensive term in some cultures and has no clear reason for being attached to this plant."
Thanks Karen! I didn't know that.
I had heard it is Arabic for non Muslim. Because it was from countries without any. Good to see languages can evolve to be more compassionate.
We call those bergamot... the rind is used to flavour cocoa for making tea. The juice is used as well but not commonly.... you'd have to peel them in order to juice then though.
Thats uk ackuhally um i believe this is a uh BERGAMOT this is BERGAMOT
ok, detergent fruit.. lol
+Going Natural heh, there's a reason why its sold at flower markets I guess.
Funnily this appears when you search bergamot
weird! Maybe because I have reviewed it also: th-cam.com/video/t1UcdiYtOtg/w-d-xo.html
@@WeirdExplorer i know, i watched it plenty of times and i notice a difference between those, for example go to fragantica search at the notes category for bergamot and kaffir lime and its the same
@@WeirdExplorer here are the links
Bergamot: www.fragrantica.com/notes/Bergamot-75.html
Kaffir lime : www.fragrantica.com/notes/Kaffir-Lime-958.html
Its not bad... it taste like dishwashing detergent... so its not bad🤣
The next Steve1982😁👍
Kaffir Lime = Begamot
Great to use to body scrap...add into pink salt. To uplift energy
Kaffir lime is not bergamot. Essential oil peddlers like to use pictures of kaffir lime when selling bergamot oil because it looks more interesting. But its nothing like it. This is bergamot: th-cam.com/video/t1UcdiYtOtg/w-d-xo.html
Its one of my favorite perfume key note "bergamot" 🥰
It smells nothing like lemon or lime. It smells terrible.
I find this video is offensive
Most people aren't offended by this, you seem to be the exeption.
@@jannikheidemann3805 kaffir is a racist slur in South Africa 🇿🇦
@@makubegysman6160 neither he is from Africa nor is the fruit from Africa... you ever hear the word for "um" in mandarin?
Whose idea was it to give this fruit with a name that has a slur in it? That's like having an "N-word fruit".
Its a common name for it and its origin might not even be related to any slur. Its like how the word black itself are used to refer to a lot of things and all are unrelated to each other aside than colour. Just like how the cocktail Negroni are unrelated to African, since it come from the name of a French general, Comte de Negroni.
@@13gan The word k@ffir also means "infidel" in Arabic afaik. Unlike the negroni, which is named after a person, I wonder why people chose a word with overall negative connotations to give to this fruit.
@@valentinewiggin7782 Yes, unbeliever is infidel, though the use of the word kaffir have more depth than that and its nuance vary from country to country. In most Muslims countries, the nuance vary as to call another Muslims kaffir either mean that he's not a true believer (as in unothordox/heresy) implying they should be killed (per Sharia law,) to a kind of joke in the same vein as Darth Vader's "You lack of faith is disturbing".
Used against non-muslim (or in the Sunni vs Shia context), its basically a label to say that they are not a member of the "one true faith" and sometimes is used to exclude and belittle them as the word kaffir is also related to jahil i.e uncivilised, coming from the the Islamic stories of the Jahiliah era of Arabian peninsula. That and as a label for enemy of the faith, which is why you see Iran labeling USA as a kaffir country.
This is why the name kaffir lime is not really as serious as you would thought as its use is pretty much like using the word heretics. You can use it as a joke among friends or you can also use it while burning them on a pyre. On "bad words" scales, it range between 2 to 6 in a scale of 10 because even when used as a racial epitaph, unless the context is fully in open hostility, its not exactly "bad". Its like hearing someone saying "My nigga" without trying to guess the speaker's race, if you get what I mean.
One of the theories i heard on the name of Kaffir lime was that when it was imported to Arab countries, they were called kaffir lime due to it coming from kaffir (as in non-muslim) countries. In this context, its not really bad as its name basically mean "foreign lime".
Oh brother!!! 🤣😂🤣🤦🏽♀️
Because loanwords don't always mean the same thing in the original language as in the language they are loaned to. The reason kaffir is a slur in South Africa is because of the habit of Arabic slave traders to refer to the slaves they traded as such and this word being adopted by the buyers, who didn't know what the word really meant. So in Arabic, the world is far more benign and gets assigned to other things, including this foreign-to-Arabia lime and the Arabs introduce it to the rest of the world as a kaffir lime, not caring that their word was corrupted in South Africa.
Personally, I find it offensive to try to tell Arabs that they can't use their words anymore because they were corrupted by a small group of white South Africans.